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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

Enumerate High civilization Countries
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Around Back Chopped Country
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

AllThings Conservatism Constitution Describing
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Man Pretends Understand Women
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
I hold Sufficiently justified Love
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life Predicament Death
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Dark Have Our doubt Passion
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Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience Peaceful
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Money Thing Follow Charming
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Takes Great deal History Little literature
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Certain circumstances Hours Life
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Summer afternoon Most beautiful Words
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art Makes life Makes importance Substitute
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Kill Human being.injury
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad

Corrupt politicians Look bad
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Military men Dumb Stupid animals
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Task Leader People Where
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Matter True Counts Perceived
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power Ultimate
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

No permanent friends Enemies Interest
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
Too ambitious Most important Care
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Absence Alternatives Mind
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Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
Every victory Price Admission Difficult problem
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

Country Demands Perfection Foreign policy
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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Nations learn Past Draw Correct conclusions
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

Blessed People Leaders Destiny
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

Behind Slogans Intellectual vacuum
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

Thank you Applause Humble
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

Have Tendency Believe Problem
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem

Each success Admission Difficult problem
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus

History Knows Resting places
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Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
Politicians Dogs Expectancy Bearable
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

End Peace Achieved Balance
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Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance.

Self explanatory Analysis Interpretation
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
Diamond Chunk Coal Under pressure
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned.

Statesman Arguments Convincing End
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Judge people Excellence Distance Traveled
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Books Furniture Beautifully furnishes
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Unthankful heart No mercies Will find
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist Own soul Nature
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Love Endure indifference Lamp
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Perseverance Obstinacy Comes from Strong will
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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Adversity Reason Benefit Sober reflection
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

Person Sense Humor Springs
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Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Hold yourself Higher standard Never
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Troubles Tools God Better things
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Young love Flame Pretty Hot
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.

No friendship No love Mother Child
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Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.
Because Debt Exploding Medicare
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